- Sharron Davies MBE fumed at educators for enforcing co-ed sports days
A former British Olympian has claimed young girls are left in floods of tears because they ‘win nothing’ when forced to compete against boys in school sports days.
Sharron Davies MBE, a three time Olympian, fumed at educators in a post of X branding them as ‘weak’ after she received call from primary school parents saying their daughters were being discriminated against during the school event.
The 61-year-old said: ‘No one is being kind to little girls on co-ed sports days in primary schools because weak teachers are scared of activists.
‘I have emails every week presently from distraught parents saying not a single little girl won anything. This is an abomination of object sex discrimination.’
Sharron Davies, the three time Olympiad, fumed at educators in a post of X after claiming she had received call from primary school parents saying their daughters were being discriminated against during school sports day
In the tweet she wrote: ‘No one is being kind to little girls on co-Ed sports days in primary schools because weak teachers are scared of activists’
Ms Davies has frequently and publicly expressed her concerns in relation to self-identification in sport and women’s only events.
She has insisted that transgender athletes create a disadvantage for cisgender women because of their enhanced levels of testosterone.
Lucy Marsh at the Family Education Trust agreed that making school events co-ed leads to a negative impact on girls competing in sports.
‘It’s ridiculous that schools are treating girls and boys as if there were no physical differences between them.
‘It’s well known that girls often drop out of sports when they hit puberty, so it’s not rocket science to realise that putting them against boys in primary school sports day races is a bad idea.
‘Competing against boys who will always beat them due to biological advantages is not only unfair but actually harmful to girls’ wellbeing.’
She continued that gender ideology is becoming the priority in school, over children’s safety, adding that single sex spaces are key for a young child’s development.
‘Some schools are also ignoring safeguarding guidelines with their gender neutral policies by getting rid of single toilets and changing rooms.
‘Gender ideology has overtaken safeguarding and is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ms Davies has frequently and publicly expressed her concerns in relation to self-identification in sport and women’s only events, insisting that transgender athletes create a disadvantage for cisgender women because of their enhanced levels of testosterone
Sharron Davies pictured ahead of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Ms Davies compared Britain’s slow response to the scandal to the Post Office saga and pointed to France and Japan as countries which had dealt with it better
Davies followed up her swimming career by being one of ITV’s Gladiators in the 1990s. She told GB News today that her mother, who died in 2017, had not taken any money from the government throughout her life and told very few people about her illness
‘While boys and girls need equal opportunities at school, it’s detrimental to both sexes to treat them as if they are exactly the same.
‘Boys and girls develop and learn differently and it’s vitally important that they have single sex spaces.
‘Lessons on puberty should also be separate for girls and boys instead of pretending that they develop in the same way. We need the return of common sense and a focus on safeguarding in schools.’
However, former British Commonwealth champion Iwan Thomas told Good Morning Britain that allowing young children to compete in mixed-gender races enables them to have more fun during sports day.
‘At primary school let it be fun, it is not about who wins and who loses. If a girl is quicker than a boy good, at that age they are very similar genetically.
‘I mean this is about egg and spoon or three-legged races.’
Similarly Dr Hilary Jones a GP and writer on medical issues said at that age girls and boys are physically on an even level at primary age so there is no scientific reason to separate them.
One of Ms Davies most recent interventions on the issue came after a landmark report on NHS gender identity services for children and young people raised major concerns about the UK’s approach to trans issues.
She demanded sports bodies, including the Football Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board, stop trans athletes competing at the elite level.
Ms Davies revealed the issues surrounding transgender athletes competing in sport causes her ‘a lot of frustration’ and explained the action of removing testosterone doesn’t prevent a ‘biological advantage’.